Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

The fight against cybercrime Government authorities and financial institutions are stepping up efforts to combat cybercrime in the cryptocurrency sector. In addition, cryptocurrency exchange platforms are implementing more stringent security measures, such as two-factor authentication and advanced encryption, to protect users’ funds.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

The attacks were observed as recently as February 2024, they targeted government, education, emergency services, healthcare, and other critical infrastructure sectors. Phobos operation uses a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, it has been active since May 2019. ” reads the joint CSA.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Government agencies revealed that Akira ransomware has breached over 250 entities worldwide and received over $42 million in ransom payments. The cybersecurity researchers observed threat actors obtaining initial access to organizations through a virtual private network (VPN) service without multifactor authentication (MFA) configured.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

A ransomware attack against the Finnish IT services provider Tietoevry disrupted the services of some Swedish government agencies and shops. ” reads an update published by the services provider. At present, Tietoevry cannot provide a definite timeframe for the complete restoration process due to the complexity of the security breach.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform. ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia. New strain of Cerberus Android banking trojan can steal Google Authenticator codes. The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2024

OpenAI’s Altman Sidesteps Questions About Governance, Johansson at UN AI Summit Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. This year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) coordinate the collaboration between the government and industry, running a human-centric campaign themed “See Yourself in Cyber”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

This vulnerability allows for unauthenticated attackers, or authenticated users, with network access to the TMUI, through the BIG-IP management port and/or Self IPs, to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, disable services, and/or execute arbitrary Java code.” reads the advisory published by F5.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a worrisome level of attacks attempting to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The group is very sophisticated and used zero-day exploits and complex malware to conduct targeted attacks against governments and organizations in almost every industry, including financial, energy, telecommunications, and education, aerospace. The targets were all located in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2024

GootLoader is still active and efficient Hackers stole OpenAI secrets in a 2023 security breach Hackers leak 170k Taylor Swift’s ERAS Tour Barcodes Polyfill.io GootLoader is still active and efficient Hackers stole OpenAI secrets in a 2023 security breach Hackers leak 170k Taylor Swift’s ERAS Tour Barcodes Polyfill.io

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

Most affected organizations are educational institutions such as schools and universities, healthcare facilities including clinics and doctors’ practices, nursing services, legal and tax advisory firms, local governments, and a multitude of medium-sized enterprises. reads the advisory published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We have also implemented measures such as multi-factor authentication to prevent further breaches.” . “As part of our ongoing response, we temporarily blocked external communication with the affected servers and have installed EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) systems on all servers and PCs to detect unauthorized activity.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

state privacy laws, the EUs governance of ethical AI deployment, and updated regulations in India and Japan. The SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule highlights transparency in governance. Seara Jose Seara , CEO, DeNexus Recent regulatory updates highlight a shift toward robust cyber risk governance, requiring organizations to adapt.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The agency is strengthening its identity management and authentication protocols, and enhancing the monitoring activities.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware. Related: Cyber espionage is in a Golden Age.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2024

Exploitation requires successful authentication by a user with the necessary privileges. The web shell’s primary purpose is to intercept and harvest credentials which would enable access into downstream customers’ networks as an authenticated user. ” reads the advisory published by Versa Networks. . victims and one non-U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Group-IB specialists discovered 19 928 of Singaporean banks’ cards that have shown up for sale in the dark web in 2018 and found hundreds of compromised government portals’ credentials stolen by hackers throughout past 2 years. Users’ logins and passwords from the Government Technology Agency ( [link] [.] Underground market economy.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2020

The BIG-IP product is an application delivery controller (ADC), it is used by government agencies and major business, including banks, services providers and IT giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Oracle. Many of the targeted systems belong to government agencies, healthcare providers, educational organizations, and financial institutions.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

Installations that have not altered the default configured SECRET_KEY according to installation instructions allow for an attacker to authenticate and access unauthorized resources.” The application then validates the signature on the cookie to re-authenticate the user prior to processing the request. ” reads the advisory.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As businesses rely more on mobile devices for authentication and communication, these evolving threats are slipping past conventional security defenses, putting corporate networks at greater risk. Zimperium found that mishing activity peaked in August 2024, with over 1,000 daily attacks recorded. What is mishing?

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. It has a battery, so it’s platform independent and you don’t have to rely on the computer’s operating system to turn it on or authenticate it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

In order to exploit the flaw, an attacker have to send a specially crafted HTTP POST request to the upload.cfm file which is not restricted and does not require any authentication. .” According to the experts, the flaw was introduced when the Adobe replaced the FCKeditor WYSIWYG editor with the CKEditor. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm is behind destructive cyberattacks against Ukrainian state networks, the Ukrainian Government Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warns. CERT-UA is warning of destructive cyberattacks conducted by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group against the Ukraine public sector.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For example, your accounting technology should have features that work to protect your data, like internal controls, multi-factor authentication, or an audit trail that documents change to your data. Stay educated. Set access privileges and internal controls. Stay proactive.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to promote inherently insecure, nascent Internet technology to be the world’s primary global information infrastructure for all the world’s communications, content, and commerce. Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to de facto nationally abdicate governing online.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. government institutions, and about 250 Ukrainian victims. ” reads the joint advisory. ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

We have taken steps across our technology, processes and employee education, to help prevent these types of attacks in the future.” For maximum security on your domains, consider adopting some or all of the following best practices: -Use 2-factor authentication, and require it to be used by all relevant users and subcontractors. -In

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2024

The first campaign, “LegalQloud,” is impersonating Microsoft to target government workers and investment bankers in North America. LegalQloud targets governments and investment banks in North America and impersonates the names of >500 legal firms and steals credentials,” Menlo Security writes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The only way to tackle this challenge is to educate the users about these threats and their potential implications. Users could leave all the responsibility to governments and other institutions. If such processes lack proper authentication steps, they could work as gateways for bigger problems.

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